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| the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words\ |
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| the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds\ |
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| a song or instrumental composition concerning, accompanying, or evoking daybreak\ |
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| a four-line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four "Because I could not stop for Death,/He kindly stopped for me/The Carriage held but just Ourselves/And Immortality./"\ |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter\ |
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| a division made by the ending of a word within a foot, or sometimes at the end of a foot, esp. in certain recognized places near the middle of a verse\ |
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| a fanciful poetic image, especially an elaborate or exaggerated comparison\ |
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| the correspondence of consonants, esp. those at the end of a word, in a passage of prose or verse\ |
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| a unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit\ |
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| a metrical foot of three syllables, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables. Strawberry blueberry.\ |
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| crudely or irregularly fashioned verse, often of a humorous or burlesque nature\ |
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| a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, esp. a funeral song or a lament for the dead\ |
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| a line with a pause at the end; lines that end with a period, comma, colon, semicolon, exclamation point, or question mark are end-stopped lines\ |
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| the running on of the thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break\ |
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| a rhyme in which the final syllable is unstressed\ |
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| poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical\ |
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| two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit\ |
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| a line containing six feet\ |
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| a two syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable; the iamb is the most common foot in English poetry\ |
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| rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end\ |
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| a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet\ |
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| a group of eight lines of verse, esp. the first eight lines of a sonnet in the Italian form\ |
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| the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning\ |
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| a line containing five feet; the iambic pentameter is the most common line in English verse written before 1950\ |
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| a seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc, used by Chaucer and other medieval poets\ |
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| the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit\ |
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| a poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end\ |
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| rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical\ |
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| normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem; the conventional Italian, or Petrachan, sonnet is rhymed abba, abba, cde, cde; the English, or Shakespearean, sonnet is rhymed abab, cdcd, efef, gg\ |
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| usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme\ |
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| a group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups of three lines\ |
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| a three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, ded\ |
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| a short poem of fixed form, written in tercets, usually five in number, followed by a final quatrain, all being based on two rhymes} |
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